Sade (film)

Sade is a 2000 French film directed by Benoît Jacquot, adapted by Jacques Fieschi and Bernard Minoret from the novel La terreur dans le boudoir by Serge Bramly.

Plot

Paris in 1794: After prolonged detention, the Marquis de Sade (Daniel Auteuil), who claims during the hearing to be neither noble nor the author of the novel Justine, is incarcerated with other nobles in a prison which was formerly a monastery in Picpus.

Cast

Daniel Auteuil – Marquis de Sade

Marianne Denicourt – Marie-Constance Quesnet / Sensible

Jeanne Balibar – Madame Santero

Grégoire Colin – Fournier

Isild Le Besco – Emilie de Lancris

Jean-Pierre Cassel – Le vicomte de Lancris

Dominique Reymond – Madame de Lancris

Sylvie Testud – Renée de Sade

Philippe Duquesne – Coignard

François Levantal – Latour

See also

Quills (film) was an English-language film covering similar subject matter, released the same year.

References

External links

Sade at IMDb